Lisa Montanarelli

This Tuesday, March 17 at 6 p.m., I’m reading with two very talented writers at The Cornelia Street Caféas part of the Writers Room reading series.

6:00PM  WRITERS ROOM
Andy Zeffer, host
New York’s venerable urban writers’ colony presents a monthly reading of new work. This month Jeff’s featured readers include Lisa Montanarelli, Mauria Laurino, and Elizabeth Flock.

Lisa will read an excerpt from a short story titled “The Missing Ear.”

Lisa Montanarelli has contributed features, profiles, and reviews to San Francisco Chronicle, Art and Antiques Magazine, Agence France-Presse, Publishers Weekly, California Literary Review, Colorado Review, and other publications. She co-authored three nonfiction books, including The First Year–Hepatitis C: An Essential Guide for the Newly Diagnosed, which she and co-author Cara Bruce revised and updated in 2007. She currently writes a column on economics, personal finance, and environmentalism for YoungMoney.com. Her fiction has appeared in Best American Erotica 2004 and Best American Erotica 2005. Lisa received her B.A. from Yale and her Ph.D. in comparative literature from U.C. Berkeley. Visit her at www.LisaMontanarelli.com.

Maria will be reading from her forthcoming memoir Old World Daughter, New World Mother: An Education in Love and Freedom.

Maria Laurino is the author of Were You Always an Italian?, a national best-selling memoir about ethnic identity, as well as the forthcoming memoir Old World Daughter, New World Mother: An Education in Love and Freedom (W.W. Norton, 2009). A former chief speechwriter to NYC Mayor David Dinkins and a staff writer for the Village Voice, Laurino’s work has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, the Nation, Salon.com, and numerous publications. Her essays have been widely anthologized, including in the Norton Reader.

Elizabeth will read from her just-released book Sleepwalking in Daylight.

Former print journalist Elizabeth Flock reported for Time and People magazines before becoming an on-air correspondent for CBS News. Her acclaimed debut novel, But Inside I’m Screaming, chronically the psychological struggles of a young woman in New York, was released in 2003. Her second novel, Me & Emma, became a New York Times bestseller and was a Booksense Notable Book of 2005. Everything Must Go, Elizabeth’s third novel, loosely based on a men’s clothing store in Connecticut, was published in 2007. Elizabeth’s books have been published in nine countries. Her fourth novel, Sleepwalking in Daylight, will be released on March 1, 2009, and has been chosen as an Indie Next List (formerly Booksense) title for March. Elizabeth Flock lives in New York City.

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